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B. Balenciaga Balenciaga 2014

7.2 / 10 149 Ratings

A perfume by Balenciaga for women, released in 2014. The scent is floral-powdery. It was last marketed by Coty.
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Main accords

Floral

Powdery

Fresh

Woody

Green

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Soy bean

Lily of the valley

Heart Notes

Cedar

Orris root

Base Notes

Cashmere wood

Ambrette seed

Perfumers

Domitille Michalon-Bertier, IFF (International Flavors & Fragrances)

Ratings

Scent

7.2149 Ratings

Longevity

6.8104 Ratings

Sillage

6.1104 Ratings

Bottle

7.1119 Ratings

Value for money

7.316 Ratings

Submitted by Michael, last update on 08/01/2025.

Interesting Facts

The face of the advertising campaign is German model Anna Ewers, photographed by Steve Klein.

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What the fragrance is similar to

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Reviews

8 in-depth fragrance descriptions

08/01/2025

7.5Scent 5Longevity 5Sillage

MrsGuerlain
533 Reviews

MrsGuerlain

1

The lightest of greens

Some fragrances are created to overwhelm/overpower/overtake whoever is wearing. Like Balenciaga’s Florabotanica. Some are not. Like Balenciaga’s B. Whereas Florabotanica enters the room a minute before its wearer and keeps demanding everyone’s attention, B is the lightest of greens. Greens often tend to create a certain mood or add colour to a special situation. B is that kind of fragrance.
With only one flower note, lily of the valley, it is only slightly sweet. The sweetness becomes more expressed as the hours pass, but the brightness lies in the cedar and the orris root mixed together. Not very musky on my skin, and soy bean is not a note I detect. It is, however, a journey from fresh-green to more deep and faceted woody. So nice.
The bottle is a bit odd, especially the top. I like the weight of it in my hand. The colour of the juice is wrong. It should be the lightest green, like Jesu del Pozo’s Duende.
B is great for summertime and for any occasion where you have to be aware of other people not necessarily sharing your enthusiasm when it comes to fragrances.
Year 2, 79/365

04/08/2018

8.5Scent 7Longevity 7Sillage

QuercusAlbus
72 Reviews

QuercusAlbus

Peas!? Soya Bean!?

Soya bean (or peas, as I have seen this notes-listed elsewhere)!? That's at least original!

What prompted me to appoint this my olfactory panoply for the day is a combination of the fact that I found it quickly as I was searching for something, and a combination of the fact that I have just been reviewing a fragrance that someone else found to have poor sillage & longevity whereas I did not find so, and the fact that I have tried ^this^ one before and found it to have poor score in those qualities, whereas others do not so find.

This was one of my first ventures into °light° fragrances. I had thitherto always gone for the heavy ones - those being they that make the greatest initial impact in the retail environment; but some research, and curiosity as to what all those others were °about° that didn't seem to°do° much eventually swayed me unto actually starting giving them at try-out.

It wasn't very successful at first, and I ^longed^ for my heavy stonking fragrances. Just how unsuccessful it was was revealed to me in my inspection of just how much this bottle had gone down through my previous assay: I thought to myself "I really used ^that^ much!". I must have been ^seriously^ stonking of it on that occasion!?

Another one that this reminds me of is ~Decadence~ by Mark Jacobs. In fact, they are like two peas in a pod! (someone said to me recently that she & I are like that - I do believe with goodwill. (Schrödinger's Cat!)). That one doesn't have pea or soya bean essence in it, but both are green+amber type fragrances, and also light - or at least what I would call that. Some say they are quite heavy, actually, which again raises the matter of the capriciosity of the olfactory faculty.

I'm getting a strong °green° enthusion from this one even as I speak; and indeed it was that that attracted me to it in this case: I particularly like the way green is rendered in this fragrance - I think it's done with a certain ^style^. It also has a certain sweetness inwhich it resembles ~Sine Die~ (a latin legal term - nothing to do with dying (Laurent Mazzone fragrances are sometimes named ^very^ strangely - ~Cicatrices~, for instance (!!))); but that one is much sweeter than this one. Also, the ambrette musk is clearly apparent in it by virtue of my having become familiar with Calvin Klein's ~Beauty~, which I now adore, and also which I think might °layer with this extremely well.

This fragrance, and the others I have mentioned in connection with it, being what I have just a little earlier called ~green+amber~ fragrances, are that by virtue of their being essentially a fusing of a green note with an ambry or musky note, or a musky-ambry one. This seems to me to be a difficult perfumery fusion to well-accomplish, the two kinds of note tending to fight each other to a considerable extent, to my mind; but in this fragrance, and in the others I have mentioned - and ~Nomade~ by Chloé is also an outstanding instance of it - this perfumery °high-wire act° is executed with consummate slicity.

05/28/2015

7Scent 5Longevity 5Sillage

DonJuanDeCat
2046 Reviews

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DonJuanDeCat

Very helpful Review 11

Fruity, summery, feel-good fragrance

I’m testing a women’s fragrance, hehe.
No,… I mean yes, but noooo…. not for me!
Okay, seriously. I was recently testing a few fragrances with a good friend, as we are both lucky enough to share this wonderful hobby. And of course, she sniffs my fragrances just as I like to sniff hers. Suddenly, I saw her standing in front of a shelf with a radiant face, completely delighted and almost dancing with joy and happiness, one arm raised to her face so she could press the test strip to her nose, and the other arm,… well, she needed that for dancing. At that moment, I knew she had discovered something great. And she was right! Besides, it was about time I shared my opinion on women’s fragrances too!

The fragrance that makes women dance:
At the beginning, according to the fragrance pyramid, you can best smell the violet leaf and then the lily of the valley. Yes, that’s probably true, but here comes my “but”: To me, it also smells a bit like apple. Or rather, even like fruity apple juice, and I don’t mean the juice from a bottle, but the one from a Tetra Pak. And if it’s not apple, then it’s definitely lightly fruity, maybe pear-like?
However, I’m not saying this in a negative sense. Because it really smells wonderful, very, very pleasant and beautiful. Later on, it becomes slightly woody and a bit powdery and soft. The iris in the heart note is unfortunately a bit weak. Even towards the end, it still smells fruity, powdery, and woody, and becomes sweetish as well. Thanks to the ambrette seeds and what I think are fruity notes, I also know why this fragrance seems so familiar to me. It has a certain similarity to Escada Especially, but smells significantly better.

The longevity seems to be a small weak point. Or rather the sillage. Because after about two to three hours, the fragrance is no longer so noticeable on the skin (yes, yes… on my skin…), and after about three to four hours, it’s almost gone.

The bottle is really beautifully designed. It’s a tall, hexagonal bottle, colored pink and with a textured, rough surface, as if it were made of stone. It also features a great cap reminiscent of an arch bridge. Yes, it’s a fantastic bottle that almost looks like a sculpted piece of stone and must be seen, as it doesn’t come across as well in the pictures from Parfumo.

B. Balenciaga is a really nice fragrance for spring and summer, with a slightly weak longevity and projection. It smells fruity (at least it seems fruity to me…), woody, and sweetish. At first, the fruity aspect is a bit too high, so one might think that the fragrance is for younger people. But the development of the fragrance is really great and becomes more mature; the beautiful bottle also shows that it is not a youthful scent, but rather for a (young or young-at-heart) adult woman who wants to smell good and irresistible, especially in spring :)

I find it really great and definitely recommend it; it should definitely be tested.

04/16/2015

9Scent 7.5Longevity 5Sillage

Anna1991
84 Reviews

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Anna1991

Very helpful Review 10

B. like special...

I waited a long time for him; he has been on my wishlist forever and now this:
A visit to the perfumery to treat myself with the "My Burberry" voucher, and then my "dealer" comes to me with a sample of B., sprays it on me with the words "This one is brand new and I'm sure you'll like it," and just like that, I'm hooked on the next substance...

I am already a big fan of Balenciaga Paris; which, I think, is a really great, extraordinary fragrance and with which I have received an incredible amount of compliments.
I expected a floral scent from B.; a clean, clear spring/summer perfume. The bottle already expresses that. Very elegant and high-quality - straightforward without flowers and bows and somehow cool.

Like the bottle, so is its content: When the saleswoman sprayed it on me, a floral breeze first wafted around my nose; but not 0815-sweet-floral, rather very memorable - B. has a slight resemblance to Flagrant Delice by Terry de Gunzburg; I think this mainly comes from the musk - B. is, however, finer and more pleasant, and I find it more enjoyable because it doesn't come across as harsh. Nevertheless, there is occasionally a slight metallic note that gives the perfume a certain depth.

The clear, floral notes are in the foreground - lily of the valley and violet. Optimal for spring, which is finally asserting itself now. However, the scent is not boring; over time, a slight spiciness emerges that complements the musk well. A fragrance that makes you feel simply clean and well-groomed - ideal for work.

Conclusion:
For me, B. is a very well-groomed, special scent - not a bombshell, but I don't expect that from every perfume. Best worn in spring/summer and autumn.
Sillage and longevity are in the better middle range - however, it is also nice to refresh a lovely scent from time to time.
I will now diligently use up my sample and then it will also make its way onto the wishlist :-)

04/19/2015

7Scent

pudelbonzo
2404 Reviews

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pudelbonzo

Very helpful Review 10

mine or not mine...

... that is the question.

When I received the B Balenciaga sample, I was very grateful, as I always have a good relationship with the scents of this brand.

I think of Le Dix, Rosabotanika, and L'essence.

All fragrances that welcomed me with open arms and wear like a second skin.

So I wanted to slip effortlessly into B as well, but something is pinching and tugging.
The sweet-nutty opening - could it be the ambrette seed? - is not delicious and appealing to me.
It is somewhat milky due to the soybean and reminds me of rice pudding.

Well, unfortunately, I don't actually like rice pudding - so my husband has to sniff it, as he enjoys this dish.
He, on the other hand, senses Christmas cookies but finds them a bit over-seasoned.

Too dark for me - that's his assessment.

The violet note, on the other hand, appeals to me, but is further darkened by the iris.
The cashmere wood also does not lighten the fragrance; instead, it remains trapped in a peculiar fog.

The scent still has something interesting - even winning about it, which keeps me engaged with it.
But slipping in and feeling comfortable is not the motto here.

Maybe I have just fallen for the magic word "Balenciaga," which has never let me down before?

But one should not force anything - I will put B aside and try again in winter.
P. S. In the meantime, B and I have become friends.
A fragrance that takes its time.

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